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...would crack the anti-Saddam coalition in other ways as well, it was feared. During the inevitably long war, Bush would be more willing to act unilaterally in an idiotic attempt to restore Pax Americana--thereby destroying the possibility for future collective security in the region, which would already be endangered by Israel's participation...
BUSH'S RECENT HINT of a new Pax Americana that would begin after Saddam Hussein's defeat raises unsettling images of John Winthrop's ideal of America as a "city on a hill," John Foster Dulles's notion of America as savior or even the 19th century vision of America's "manifest destiny...
...world order was what happened in the air and on the ground in the Middle East last week. The resort to force -- no matter how necessary under the circumstances -- was an admission that the preferred and defining methods for making a better world had failed. Talk of a pax Americana was not just premature but out of place. There was plenty of Americana but too little pax. It was the same old world last week, and a not very orderly one at that...
DECORATION DAY (NBC, Dec. 2, 9 p.m. EST). James Garner plays a retired judge in a Georgia town who encounters the bitterness of a black World War II vet in this languid, treacly slice of Americana from the Hallmark Hall of Fame...
Throughout On the Verge these "Victorian lady travellers" engage in an endless volley of pithy, alliterative, and highly allusive language. Plagiarizing from sources as varied as Joyce, Shakespeare, and the slang of fifties Americana, they wend their way through the kaleidoscopic landscape of "Terra Incognita," a territorial hybrid of the 19th century African Congo and the Land of the Blue Meanies from the Beatles' acid-crazed 1967 animation, "Yellow Submarine." This land is to be imagined rather than perceived: at the playwright's behest the set is relatively sparse...